Archive for July 10th, 2008

As many of you have read elsewhere, Indianapolis has experienced a surge in homicides lately, mostly domestic disturbances gone bad. One of those homicides was a 69 year old man on the Near Eastside. IMPD officer Jason Fishburn was serving a warrant on a man in connection with that homicide and almost paid the ultimate price himself.

As of 23:30, Ofcr. Fishburn is in surgery at Wishard Hospital for a gunshot wound to the head. The suspect got his too, but his condition is unknown and his identity is not being released by IMPD.

I’ll post updates to this story as I hear them though the MSM or from my other sources

Keep Officer Jason Fishburn in your prayers tonight.

Comments on the House floor From The Burton Blog:

“The problem is in this body and the other body on the other side of the building, they will not move, the majority will not move on drilling here in the United States. We could drill in the ANWR in Alaska and get 1 to 2 million barrels of oil a day. We could drill off the continental shelf and get 1 or 2 million barrels of oil a day. We have about a 400 or 500 year supply of natural gas. And we are not doing anything. We are not drilling.

We are sending $400 or $500 million a day over to Saudi Arabia and to Venezuela and South America for oil that we could produce right mere in America. It is costing us jobs, it is costing us energy, it is causing food price hikes, the price of anything else that you buy that is transported by truck in this country, and the people going to and from work or paying $4 or $5 a gallon or $70 or $80 or $90 for one tankful.

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Politico reports:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this morning that the House Judiciary Committee may hold hearings on an impeachment resolution offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).

Kucinich is expected to offer a “privileged resolution” this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and the American public when he sought congressional approval back in 2002 for taking military action to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Pelosi has said previously that impeachment “was off the table,” so her comments this morning were surprising

Never mind the devaluing US dollar, high energy costs, unsecure US borders, financial markets, Iran shooting missiles aimed for Israel, and getting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mopped up and have some middle eastern stability for a while. Noooo, we have to spend waste Congress’ time on impeaching a lame duck President for doing his job …. as opposed to the last guy who was impeached for getting “a ….job” and lying about it.

Bloomington Herald-Times, July 10, 2008

To the Editor:

I attended the City Council meeting last month where the councilors voted 8-1 to give a taxpayer subsidy to the local branch of America’s #1 abortion provider for the tenth consecutive year.

It is unfortunate that the City Council decided to put a political endorsement for Planned Parenthood above the requests of social service agencies that actually need the money, especially since Planned Parenthood and all of its affiliates combined for over a billion dollars in revenue in its most recent fiscal year and that the national branch saw a profit of $37.7 million, according to PP’s most recent fiscal report.

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The State Democrats only wish they understood this kind of unity.

***Republican Attorney General Candidate Greg Zoeller Announces
Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas as Campaign Chairman***

(Valparaiso) Republican Attorney General Candidate Greg Zoeller announced today that Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas will serve as Chairman of the Zoeller for Attorney General Campaign.

Zoeller and Costas made the announcement today at the City Hall in Valparaiso.

“I am honored to have Mayor Costas on the team,” said Zoeller. “ Jon will provide a wealth of campaign support and experience, and I look forward to working with him in my bid to be the state’s next chief legal officer.”

“Having campaigned with Greg down at the State GOP Convention, I have come to know him and believe he will make an outstanding attorney general,” said Mayor Costas. His experience as our State’s Chief Deputy Attorney General and his vision of how he plans to serve if elected, makes him the best qualified candidate in the race. I am ready to go a step further than the usual endorsement and actively join his team’s effort to make his campaign a success.”

Zoeller won the Republican nomination for attorney general at the Republican State Convention last month. If elected, Zoeller has pledged to continue the fight against telemarketers and public corruption, to work with Indiana prosecutors, sheriffs and law enforcement to protect our children against online sex predators and to defend our teachers in nuisance litigation to help them restore discipline to the classroom.

It looks like Republican congressional challengers are already showing the leadership necessary to be elected to Congress. At least that’s what Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner thinks. Why else would Boehner announce that he is taking several freshman House Republicans on a trip to ANWR?  While Luke Puckett and five other Republican challenger candidates have been carefully planning a trip to ANWR, first announced here on Hoosier Access, for the past several weeks, now the Republican Minority Leader is starting to follow their lead!

These Republican challengers, led by Luke Puckett and Mike Sodrel, are proving that they aren’t going to wait for Republican leadership in D.C. to get their act together before they start leading. Other sitting congressmen in Washington are following suite as these candidates begin to creatively and consistently advocate a common-sense solution for our nation’s energy crisis.

To learn more about the trip to ANWR, which starts on July 14th and runs through July 17th, check out Luke Puckett’s webpage detailing the trip.

(It may not be Indiana-centric, but this is quite the hot topic)

Folks, honestly… I don’t have to make this stuff up.

Once again, the “Reverend” Jesse Jackson opened his mouth, forgetting a camera was running.

In a spot caught on tape by Fox News, Jackson said he wanted to “cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out” and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of “talking down to black folks” by giving moral lectures to African-Americans.

Yep, that is what he said. Check it out:

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Looks like the Election Journal found a case of the very type of voter impersonation that is now virtually impossible in Indiana thanks to our Supreme Court upheld Voter ID law. Election Journal writes:

“The Land of Enchantment is not just known for its history as an electoral kingmaker (having selected the President in all but two elections since 1948), but also for its rich history of vote fraud and election irregularities.”

“Meet Rose-Mary McGee… In 2004 Rose-Mary McGee presented to vote at Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque. However, upon reaching the check-in table, polling officials informed Rose-Mary she had already voted. She insisted that she had not and and began to produce identification (neither required nor accepted in NM).”

“Afraid of having her vote thrown out, Rose-Mary has resolved to vote early by absentee ballot this year. “

[Helmet Visor tip to Chris Faulkner's twitter feed]

There is even a Facebook page: Save Free Speech on Capitol Hill

(Hat Tip to Chris Faulkner’s Twitter feed)